Roaring to Life | SV Ramble On

About 10 and a half months ago we decided to pull out the old Perkins 4-108 and replace it with a new Beta Marine 43. We were told it would take 5 months (April 2022) to get it. It took almost 7 months before it arrived in Sausalito and we were able to pick it up. It took us another 2 months to pull out the old engine, prep the engine beds, clean the bilge and get the Beta installed. Was it all worth it? Watch and find out.

00:00 To-Do List
01:47 End of Intro / The exhaust system
02:47 Shift and throttle cables
05:51 Engine gauges
06:02 The cooling system
08:20 The fuel lines
09:26 New shaft zinc
09:56 Will it start?
10:27 One small problem
11:11 It's been nearly a year!

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Artlist Music
Opening Music: A Good Mood by Young Rich Pixies
Other Music: Feeling Good by Alex MakeMusic
Deep Blue Sea by Yehezkel Raz
Sunny Summer by FASSounds

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I’m Jeni and he’s Rich. We’re really just a couple of average Joes. In a nutshell we met and married in our early 20s; I graduated from college in my late 20s; adopted two cats and a dog in the late 90s; sold a house and bought a new house in our mid 30s; then sold the new house and moved onto a sailboat in our early 40s. In between all that we had a bunch of fun like camping, scuba diving, watching hockey games (Go Red Wings!), concerts, traveling, spear fishing, restoring a 1963 Chevy II Nova; spending time with family and friends. A few years ago we decided to lay off all the fun-having to fix up this old boat. We figure if we put our noses to the grindstone for a few years, we’ll be able to travel for a few years and do all the fun things we’ve missed.